“Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.”
― Four Freedoms
― Four Freedoms
“You don't have to be "insane" to cut people up, no matter how fiendishly you do it. You just have to hate enough.”
― They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper
― They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper
“If Moroccans are dying in Indo-China, if it rains too much or not enough, if there is no work, if one’s wife is sick and penicillin is expensive, or if the French are still in Morocco, it is all the fault of America. She could change everything if she chose, but she does nothing because she does not love the Moslems.”
― Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993 – The Acclaimed Essays of Paul Bowles on Expatriate Life in Morocco, Tangier, and Paris
― Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993 – The Acclaimed Essays of Paul Bowles on Expatriate Life in Morocco, Tangier, and Paris
“I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space and allowing me to travel with Captain Nemo twenty thousand leagues under the sea, fight with d'Artagnan, Athos, Portos, and Aramis against the intrigues threatening the Queen in the days of the secretive Richelieu, or stumble through the sewers of Paris, transformed into Jean Valjean carrying Marius's inert body on my back.”
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